A former Marine facing the death penalty for the October 2008
slaying of a Winchester couple stood up in court Friday and yelled
that demons should be banished as he lobbed his own urine into the
courtroom.

"You demons get out of here," defendant Kesaun Kedron Sykes, 23,
called out as he stood in the jury box. "Cleanse this place."

Sykes put his hand down his orange jail-issued pants, then
lobbed urine into the air.

Deputies in Judge F. Paul Dickerson III's French Valley
courtroom immediately ordered Sykes to sit down and be quiet, but
he ignored them. Deputies then sprayed him in the eyes with pepper
spray and ordered everyone out of the courtroom.

Sykes and attorneys on both sides of the case were in the
courtroom Friday to discuss the status of the case. A trial date
has not yet been set.

Sykes is one of four former Camp Pendleton-based Marines charged
with murdering Marine Sgt. Jan Pietrzak, 24, and his wife, Quiana
Faye Jenkins-Pietrzak, 26, who were found dead Oct. 15, 2008, in
the family room of their Bermuda Street home.

Sykes and co-defendants Emrys John, 21, Tyrone Miller, 23, and
Kevin Cox, 23, are charged with multiple felonies, including two
counts of first-degree murder, rape by foreign object and
special-circumstance allegations of multiple murders. John has also
been charged with using a firearm.

During a prior hearing, investigators testified about statements
the defendants made that painted a picture of what happened at the
Pietrzak home.

The four men, armed with guns, went to the Winchester house
where they believed the couple had a lot of money and valuables,
Riverside County sheriff's Investigator Gary LeClair had testified.
Jenkins-Pietrzak was sexually assaulted in front of her husband in
an effort to force him to disclose where they could find cash and
other valuables they incorrectly believed the couple had, LeClair
had testified.

After the couple were shot, attempts were made to set the
Pietrzaks' two-story home on fire, authorities have said.

Outside the courtroom Friday, attorneys and Jenkins-Pietrzak's
parents and relatives waited for word of what would happen
next.

"We are just shocked," said Jenkins-Pietrzak's mother, Glenda
Faye Jenkins.